WHAT’S ON AT THE BROOKLYN COMMUNITY CENTRE BEFORE SCHOOL CARE 7.30 to 8.30am every school day for school-age children. For details and bookings phone Diva on 027 410 9949 AFTER SCHOOL CARE 3pm to 6pm for primary school kids. Contact Adam Hendry on 385 0089 Email: [email protected] HOLIDAY PROGRAMME 8am to 6pm during school holidays. Bookings essential. Ph. 385 0089 SUNDAY PILATES Sunday mornings alternating 10 - 10:50am and 9:30 -10:20am Phone or text Sybill for details on 021 037 9951 BROOKLYN WALKERS Mondays – meet outside the Brooklyn Library at 9:30am. Phone Susannah on 384 7412 for more information. BROWNIES Mondays 6pm to 7.30pm in school terms. Phone Margaret on 389 3028 HIP HOP & DANCE ACADEMY Hip Hop & Junior Jazz - Mondays 4:15 to 5:45pm Fun Fairy Ballet for preschoolers and primary school children. Tuesdays 3:15pm to 6pm Contact Fiona on 476 7046 or 021 721 020. PILATES Pilates is taking a break during Term 4. Back in Term 1 of 2015 Contact Beth via email: [email protected] DANISH MUSIC PLAYGROUP Sundays (fortnightly) 10:30am to 11:30am. Phone Karen on 380 1929 TOTS MUSIC CLASSES Tuesday mornings in the Community Centre lounge from 9:30am. Contact – Encore School of Music on 976 8742. Email: [email protected] INDIAN COOKING CLASSES Saturday and Sunday evenings. Bookings and enquiries to Anu. Phone: 021 0269 7038 Email: [email protected] PORSE PLAYGROUP Wednesdays 9am – 11.30 in the hall & lounge Phone Holly on 801 6814 Email: [email protected] REMBUDEN KARATE Beginners: Wednesdays 5:30 to 6:15pm & Thursdays 4:45 to 5:30pm Adult Beginners: Wednesdays 6 to 7pm & Thursdays 5:30 to 6:30pm Evening Kardio Power: Wednesdays 7:30 to 8pm Stretch & Tone class: Thursdays 6:30 to 7pm For more details, contact Patricia on 383 9371 or 027 297 6049 SPCA ADOPT A PET Saturday 8 November - 12 to 3pm. Cats & kittens seeking new homes. ST JOHN CADETS Tuesdays 6:30 to 8pm. Contact Carol on 388 3838 or 0274 321 204 TABLE TENNIS Tuesday mornings at 9am & Wednesday evenings at 8pm Phone Philip on 934 7445 or email: [email protected] TAI CHI CLASSES Thursdays at 6:30pm - $5 casual or $40 for 10 classes. Contact Ferne McKenzie on 389 1433 or email: [email protected] What’s happening in your Community Issue 259 October 2014 Popular Kid’s Market well attended The sun shone on Saturday 27 September for our annual Kid’s Market held at the Brooklyn Community Centre. A record number of stalls filled the main hall and adjoining lounge. Outside the face painter and bouncy castle added to the fun atmosphere. There was plenty of food on offer with Chinese dumplings, samosas and the Brooklyn Plunket barbecue. Special thanks to Tania O’Connor for helping to make the day a success, to Caribbean for their great coffee and to Applause Entertainment for the big bouncy castle. BROOKLYN COMMUNITY INDOOR MARKET LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH. Next market on 25 October - 9.30 to 1pm. Still only $10 per stallholder. Tables and chairs provided. Phone Euan Harris on 384 6799 to book. Brooklyn Community Centre can be hired for classes, groups & functions. Office hours - 8.30am - 3pm - Monday to Friday Phone 384 6799 Email: [email protected] ABOVE: Kid’s Market day outside the Brooklyn Community Centre. View more pictures online at www.brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz The Brooklyn Tattler is published monthly by the Brooklyn Community Centre, 18 Harrison St, Brooklyn. Coordinator’s Corner Group. More players are needed, so if you are keen to play, please contact me. 384 6799 or [email protected] Hi Everyone The Brooklyn Community Association recently signed an agreement with Wellington City Council to manage the Vogelmorn Bowling Club green area which was leased by the Bowling Club from Council. There are a lot of possibilities the green could provide, e.g. for children’s birthday parties, weddings, community picnics, school holiday programmes, games etc. Proposals are being considered to install a door in Vogelmorn Hall that will open out into the green. This is a wonderful community resource to have which will enhance the use of Vogelmorn Hall and the surrounding areas. We had a busy month in September. The extended colour edition of the Tattler was well received with 4600 copies being printed and delivered to homes throughout Brooklyn, Mornington, Kingston and Vogeltown. Thanks to Joshua Brian for another great delivery job. You must be super fit to reach all those mailboxes. Don’t forget to fill out the Kaka Project questionnaire inside last month’s Tattler and return it ASAP to the freepost address provided. This is your chance to have a say in the future of Brooklyn’s community resources. You can also fill out the survey online. Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ KakaProject . Plus, keep up to date at Kakaproject.org . All responses will be collated and presented in November. The annual Kid’s Market held in September proved popular with stalls filling the main hall and spilling out into the adjoining lounge and deck area. Tania O’Connor was great to work with in bringing in new stalls and promotion ideas. One of Tania’s ideas is to have four larger themed markets per year, including two kids markets, one with a midwinter theme, in addition to our September date, plus a harvest festival market in autumn and a Christmas market towards the end of the year. We are also interested in reviving the annual Cleveland Street Festival. If you would like to be part of the organising group, please get in touch. 2 Beth Beard who runs her popular Pilates classes at Brooklyn Community Centre and Zumba at Vogelmorn Hall is taking a break from teaching during Term 4 of this year, but Beth assures us she will be back for the start of Term 1 in 2015. The latest Brooklyn Walking Group calendar of weekly walks is out with planned trips through to March next year. Copies are available from the Community Centre office in Harrison Street. Also, make sure you get a copy of the Brooklyn Kindergarten Community Calendar at our next market on Saturday 25 October. It’s packed full of great old black and white photos from Brooklyn’s past. More details on page 5 of this Tattler. Have a great month Euan Harris - Coordinator Brooklyn Community Centre & Vogelmorn Hall We’ve had a number of people making Phone: 384 6799 contact to start an Indoor Bowling [email protected] Copy Deadline for the next Brooklyn Tattler is 30 Oct 2014 Email: [email protected] with your contribution. The Brooklyn Community Association members accept no liability for the contents which have been prepared in good faith. 19 Message from the Mayor Kia ora Brooklyn. 101 Wakefield Street has been a whirlwind of activity. This month the Council initiated its 2015-2025 Long Term Plan process which aims for economic, social and community growth and environmental restoration. We’re keen to talk to organisations like yours before a final draft is agreed on in early 2015. Please contact us through the WCC website if you would like more information. Last month at the New Zealand Association of Event Professionals Event Awards, Wellington collected six awards: Best Established Regional Event (Visa Wellington on a Plate) Best New Zealand Owned Major Event (WOW World of Wearable Arts Awards Show) Best Partnership for an Event (Visa Wellington on a Plate) Best One-Off Event (The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, World Premiere) Best Event Professional (Sue Paterson , the New Zealand Festival) Lifetime Achievement Award (Dame Suzie Moncrieff, WOW founder) These achievements affirm Wellington as the events capital of New Zealand and our successful partnerships. One of these partnerships was the recent LUX festival, which I hope you enjoyed. During a workshop in early September, the Council discussed how to fund key projects that would keep Wellington at the forefront 18 of people’s minds as a vibrant, welcoming, safe capital that is a desirable place to visit, live and study in. Projects included the airport runway extension, the film museum, better transport choices and an indoor concert venue. All of these exciting ventures affect various parts of the City and they have a shared goal of sustaining Wellington’s enviable reputation the coolest little capital in the world. The Town Belt Bill will have been passed to Central Government by the time you read this. Please work to ensure its cross-party support. Best wishes Celia Wade-Brown Mayor of Wellington Councillor Corner Whew, another election over! Great to see the local support for the three Green header issues of Clean Rivers, Smart Economy, and eliminating child poverty. Greater Wellington Regional Council has developed a strong partnership with mana whenua and key stakeholders in the wider community, to protect and manage our water and natural resources. “Whaitua” (catchment) committees have been set up to allow local communities to set their own water quality and quantity limits and the first of these is already underway in the Wairarapa. (continued overleaf) 3 Continued.. A draft Natural Resource Plan has just been completed, and contains objectives that aim to restore aquatic ecosystem health and “mahinga kai”. Mahinga kai is the customary gathering of food and natural materials. Please consider endorsing this approach through our website www.gw.govt.nz/regional-plan-review. This consultation goes through until 30th Nov. The Local Government Commission is expected to report back mid October on its preferred option for local government structures in the Wellington Region. I believe that Local government needs to devolve decision making wherever it is possible. This happens when there is less compliance culture, and more engagement culture! At a LGNZ workshop in September, Keith Johnson of Whangamata, described the leap in “local” projects under a first year of “Community Empowerment”! And decentralisation did not raise the costs! Portland, a progressive city in USA, has been working on their community governance project over 40 years, to the point where Paul Leistner says there is “Nothing about me, without me!”. Peter McKinley reported on the role of Australia’s community banking network Bendigo in strengthened local communities. Links to these papers and more can be found at www.lgnz.co.nz/ home/equip-and-knowhow/communitygovernance/ Many were annoyed by GWRC’s decision to discard our trolley buses in 2017, when there is twenty years of lifetime left in them. We are now giving you another opportunity to provide feedback through an online survey. It deals with the larger 4 strategic issues surrounding the pressures, issues, and key challenges for the region’s transport network, along with the draft objectives and outcomes, The deadline for this consultation is 5pm on 3 October 2014. See : http://haveyoursay.gw.govt.nz/RLTPlan St Matthew’s Church. In a retrogressive step, the Transport Agency (NZTA) has appealed the Board’s decision to decline the Basin Bridge (flyover). I gave a strong submission to the Basin Board of Inquiry, especially focussing on the lack of due process. Local community groups are also looking for a collaborative approach bringing together long term sustainable solutions that protect our "special spaces”. I will continue working to have those issues discussed in a more fulsome way. Please feel free to contact me. Reverend Annette Cater has been appointed Priest in Charge of St Matthew’s Church. Annette will be inducted at a service on Tuesday 28th October at 7pm. Transpacific Partnership Agreement Economist Jeffrey Sachs set out reasons to reject the TPPA: 1. These are not trade treaties, but aim to protect investors; 2. They ignore great challenges of the environment and growing inequality; 3. The entire process is not transparent, and this secrecy alone is reason enough to reject it. Greater Wellington Regional Council passed a motion requesting more information on the TPPA treaty last December. We need more transparency now, not after a treaty agreement is signed. Join the nationwide rally on 8th November, in Wellington beginning at Bucket Fountain, Cuba Mall at 1pm. Best wishes for a neighbourly Spring. Cr Paul Bruce, Regional Councillor [email protected]/ 021 0271 9370 CARPET LAYER Installation of new or second hand carpets. Relays, repairs and maintenance. All materials can be supplied. Free quotes. Contact John on 0274 426 915 or 381 2216 17 Upstream - Friends of Central Park The Jetty - follow the path beside the stream from the main gates on Brooklyn Road. This month a group of six students and their tutor from Vic Plus, a student volunteer group at Victoria University, spent one very productive Saturday morning clearing tradescantia from along the stream banks in the area above the bridge. Some of the students live locally and already use Central Park for running and commuting but for others it was all new – including a short break spent at the flying fox! Our next Working Bee is Sunday 26 October. The Jetty boardwalk, bench and stream steps are completed and invite passers - by to spend some time there, go down to the stream and enjoy the rejuvenated environment. Our last few working bees have been spent working on this site which is now nearing completion. Our working bees are supported by Supreme Coffee. Everyone is welcome to join in the working bees – coffee, tea and delicious snacks provided! Upstream - Friends of Central Park meet on the last Sunday of every month; join us from 10.00 – 12.00 at 16 For more information, contact Barbara at [email protected] or 3845249 or Debbie at [email protected] Brooklyn Kindergarten Calendar History - The way things used to be The Brooklyn Kindergarten have started something new this year for their fundraising efforts and have produced a community calendar for 2015. Here is a 1971 advert for Lau's Grocery,. It’s pretty amazing to think of the grocery prices we used to pay! The calendar contains historic pictures of Brooklyn and surrounding areas what a great idea for a Christmas present for friends and family, near and far!!! The funds raised from this year's calendar will be put towards ongoing projects, including the improvement of the outdoor environment for the children. Calendars are $15 each and are available from October 2014. The Kindergarten will have them for sale at the Community Markets, and you can also purchase by emailing [email protected] or by phoning 022 104 1255. Get in quick before they are all gone!!! 5 RESOURCE CENTRE NEWS 36 Jefferson Street 17th Oct Alba Godoy "I am not Sailor" Personal experience in sailing across the Pacific . PHONE: 384 4299 24th Oct "Wadestown Singers" 31st Oct Barbara Hampton "Wiltons Bush" 7th Nov Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul (armchair travel) First impressions of NZ from a Thai prospective 14th Nov Heather Mordaunt Physical activity at home" Lines from the Library Hello Brooklyn! Welcome to October. Have you heard of eBooks? They are books that are downloaded and read on a screen as opposed to on paper. The library website, wcl.govt.nz, provides easy to follow instructions and information regarding the service. So I recommend you visit. There are two different catalogues with over 13000 titles to choose from. To start your eBook adventure you will need to download the app to your smart phone, tablet, eReader, or iPad. There are links on the website that will pretty much do it for you. Once you have done that you are free to start borrowing. FYI: EBooks are free, you can borrow up to 15 at a time and they automatically delete off your device after three weeks, which means NO OVERDUES! You can also renew eBooks and reserve titles, as you can with regular library books. The two catalogues, OverDrive and Bolinda highlight their newest titles and recent releases. The library eBook catalogues also have a selection of public domain titles that can be downloaded for free and do not count towards your 15 title limit nor do they ever expire off your eReader. There are thousands of titles in this collection including classics such as Les Misérables and The Oedipus Trilogy. Although you can never really replace the experience of reading an actual book, an eBook comes relatively close. Along with the absence of overdue fees, there is also no liability of damaging the item or losing it. I think that eBooks are most valuable to those who take their books wherever they go. Books are hardly mobile and the more books you have the less mobile they become. EBooks are especially great for travellers and commuters; your own personal library is now available at the press of a button, or the swipe of a screen. I just want to be clear now and say that I am not suggesting you burn your books and accept that technology has taken over; I am rather offering a new exciting resource for readers to exploit in addition to the irreplaceable pleasure of reading a physical book. Give it a go- you have nothing to lose and a virtual world of literature to gain. Your Librarian Hannah Gorman Weekdays 9am - 4pm CONTACT US FOR; MAH JONG; Monday 1pm - 3pm Beginners welcome SPEECH THERAPIST Monday & Wednesdays 9am - 1pm Phone: 383 5415 PLUNKET: Clinics: Monday 9am - 4pm Tuesday 9am - 4pm Call for an appointment on 384 5253 COMMUNITY LUNCH; Tuesday 12noon - 1pm Inexpensive lunch for everybody Children welcome SPINNERS and KNITTERS: 1st and 3rd Thursdays 1 - 4pm. PODIATRIST; Every second Friday 9.00am - 11.30am Ph. for an appointment on 384 4299 FRIDAY CIRCLE: Cars will collect you if needed. Katie Underwood 027 248 2061 or 04 894 3717 Leaders Real Estate Call me to sell your home! Local Salesperson, Local Knowledge [email protected] www.leaders.co.nz/katieunderwood . 6 OPEN: Programme: Craft activities Morning Tea Lunch Arthritic Exercise Guest Speaker Afternoon Tea 9.30am 10am 12noon 1.30pm 2pm 3pm We have an amazing line up of speakers for October and November. Drop in on Friday from 2 - 3pm. You may like to be a speaker yourself. Kirsty, our Podiatrist will be at the Centre on Friday 17 and 31 October. We are in need of more Meals on Wheels drivers. If you can help, please give Jo Little a text on 0274765172 or leave a message at the Centre, phone 3844299. A few ideas have been suggested regarding night markets. We will let you know in the November Tattler. Our Friday Circle are very pleased with the speakers we have on a Friday afternoon, thank you so much for your time. The back garden is in need of a bit of a make over. Hopefully a group from Volunteer Wellington will be able to come and help. We would like a pianist to play for us, on the afternoon of 12 December for our annual Christmas Lunch. If you, or you know anyone that could do this, we would really appreciate it. We look forward to seeing you soon at the Resource Centre. Jenny Swan Co-ordinator 15 WHAT’S ON AT THE VOGELMORN HALL SPIRIT TAEKWON-DO CLUB Sunday mornings 9.15am to 12:45pm Thursday evenings 4:45 to 8:45pm Contact Louise on 021 585 119 or email: [email protected] FELDENKRAIS CLASSES Awareness through Movement Monday 10am to 11am & evening 7pm to 8pm Wednesday mornings 10am to 11am Less is More 11:45am to 12:30pm Contact Barbara on 384 5249 or Toni on 475 3355 KARDIO POWER STRETCH & TONE CLASS Monday evenings 5:40 to 6:10pm Monday evenings 6:10 to 6:40pm Punch that pad and get fit, or gently tone and stretch your body. No experience required. Contact Patricia on 383 9371 or 027 297 6049 POSITIVELY ZUMBA Zumba is taking a break during Term 4. Back at the start of Term 1 in 2015. Contact Beth via email at: [email protected] FIONA HAINES DANCE Wednesday afternoons & evenings 3:15pm to 9pm Contact Fiona on 476 7046 or 021 721 020 [email protected] KIDS ART Thursday afternoons from 3pm to 4.30pm During school terms WELLINGTON NAGINATA Women’s Martial Arts Group Friday evenings 5:30pm to 7:30pm Contact Alice at [email protected] IAIDO TRAINING Non-combative Japanese Martial Art Saturday afternoons from 3pm to 5pm Contact Cam on 021 263 0351 or [email protected] Capital Montessori School Capital Montessori School families are looking forward to enjoying the newly refitted Kingston Play Area (behind the Kingston Shops) which will be finished this month. A submission was made on behalf of the parent run Rata Parent and Infant Community (0-3yr) at the school to advocate for a better children's play area that was more accessible for both older and very young children. This has led to the installation of an extra slide and other playground equipment, and creates a real community space for the people of Kingston. The Rata Playgroup is held MonWed 9:30-11:30am with a baby orientated group Fridays 12 noon-1pm. The school also had a busy working bee last week on the school grounds and surrounding road side reserve using plants gifted to them by the Wellington City Council. ABOVE: Busy planting new plants on the school grounds, kindly donated by Wellington City Council. The Vogelmorn Hall at 11 Vennell Street can be hired for classes, groups and functions. Contact Euan Harris the Coordinator for details. Phone: 384 6799 Email:[email protected] View us online at: www.brooklyncommunitycentre.org.nz 14 7 The Coolidge St Group: History Brooklyn War Memorial Turning an old tip site into an inner city forest Brooklyn residents know about the wonderful Owhiro Stream and Central Park restoration projects, but they may not know about a project right in the centre of Brooklyn, at the top end of the Prince of Wales Park. The Coolidge Street Group has been working for over ten years to create an inner city sanctuary of native New Zealand forest that will be bird friendly all year round and able to be enjoyed by everyone. In 2000 the 1.2 hectare site was neglected and overgrown with weeds: blackberry, old man’s beard and convolvulus, with a few struggling tree ferns. Possum control came first, with Timms traps and bait stations. As possum numbers declined, the tree ferns began to flourish. As weed clearing on the hillside got underway, piles of old rubbish began to emerge – dumped baths, toilets, stoves, demolition materials, bottles and prams. Weekends were spent carting it all up to the road for the Council to remove. The worst weed infested areas are along the northern boundaries, where it was easy to dump garden waste. ABOVE: Coolidge Street 2006 just after the replanting began. As the valley has a sheltered microclimate, planting has been the reverse of the usual re-forestation. Some of the earliest trees were future forest giants, placed to provide structure but not block people’s views: Miro, totara, and matai. Some are now over 4-5 metres tall and beginning to shade out weeds. Next in were nature’s nurse plants: Ngaio, wineberry, pittosporum, ake ake and manuka. These days, most new plantings are of smaller native shrubs, as ground cover under established trees. The first planting of native trees was in 2005. Since then about 3,000 native trees and shrubs have gone in. All the plants were chosen for their appeal to birds, and as food sources ABOVE: Coolidge Street 2009, native trees beginning to grow. for kereru and tui. 8 We have since discovered that one of the Centenary projects is currently being undertaken by the Wellington Society of Genealogists, who are also researching the 100 or so names from those who died whilst serving during WW1 and who are listed on the 5 war memorials in Wellington. Once they have achieved this, they hope to research the returned servicemen. We think this is a worthy project which will be of interest to many. Some of you may have had relatives who feature on the memorial. We would love to hear from you, to hear about their lives and view any photos you may have of them. I’m sure the Genealogists would also appreciate your input. More information can be found at this link: http://ww100.govt.nz/wellington-warmemorials-research For information about the Brooklyn Memorial and the names listed, please visit:: With focus on the Centenary of the http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/ beginning of World War, the Brooklyn photo/brooklyn-war-memorial Local History Group is taking a closer look at the Brooklyn War Memorial. Please contact the Brooklyn Local History Group members, Chris Rabey One side of the memorial lists the names or Sharon Macintyre. of the Brooklynites who died in WW1. The other 3 sides feature the names of [email protected] or those who returned from service. 3888088 evenings, or Chris on 3849293. Members decided that we would try and find out more about these men. Regards Sharon Macintyre 13 Friends of Owhiro Stream Those of you who looked at TV1 or TV3 news on Friday 12 September will have seen Russel Norman being interviewed about his party's policies, and noticed FOOS members in the background. It would seem that perhaps the main object of the visit was for our restoration planting to provide a nice 'green' backdrop for interviewing the Green leader. However - Martin Payne did engage with Russel on issues affecting our project. In particular, our concern at Council's plans to apply for resource consent to fill the Landfill valley and divert the stream tributary, thereby destroying a varied and healthy regenerating ecosystem of bush and stream life, with all the implications this has for the health of the stream and our environment in general including the marine reserve. The weather as I write this not what one would call spring like, being cold and southerly with occasional hail - though as spring has traditionally been described as 'coming in like a lion, and going out like a lamb', perhaps it is only behaving as we should expect. (I have just interrupted writing this to rescue the washing - whatever made me think it was a good idea to hang it out?) However, FOOS members are very pleased that we are at last getting a significant amount of rain, as conditions have been very dry for planting over the last couple of months. This has been more of a problem as all our plants have been shifted from the shade house to the planting sites in expectation of them being planted, so they are dry before we put them into dry ground - not the best start for them. We can only hope that by spreading their root systems into the surrounding soil they will be able to take advantage of all those helpful micro organisms we read about to help them flourish. And speaking of micro organisms - I hope you are remembering to check whether the soap products you buy contain triclosan, 'the anti-microbial ingredient we really don't need'. I found to my dismay that the brand I have always bought now did include it, and that there on the front of the container was the word (in red, to their credit) 'antibacterial'. So it pays to check now and then exactly what you are buying! Janet Campbell On behalf of FOOS A long term plan is a walking track through the valley down to John Street, linking up with the Southern Walkway. A clear track will make access and monitoring of the trees much safer. As the forest grows, bird life is Increasing hugely. There are now nesting kaka and dozens of tui, while fantails, wax eyes and other small birds flit through the trees. Easy-peasy Garden Spring Workshop Is the spring weather making you think about getting a garden going? Our next workshop will teach you how to plan your own no fail, easy peasy, picking garden. Join us to design your own small garden with easy to grow and pick veggies that will add flavour, fun, and health to your meals. Design your own garden, learn which veggies and herbs will grow easily in small spaces and pots, and which will be the easiest to care for and pick for your summer salads. ABOVE: Coolidge Street today Please also bring any seeds along to swap with others and we will have some available to buy. 19th of October 2 – 4pm The Coolidge Street Group meets on the first Saturday of the month, from 2–4 pm. $10 per person New comers are very welcome. Register at: [email protected] For more information, contact Elizabeth: [email protected] Phone: 380 1991 Kena The Brooklyn Food Group Elizabeth Kay Coolidge Street Group 12 FOOS member Rene Davis welcoming Russel Norman onto the site Russel and Martin looking at the stream 9 GROUP ROUNDUP Brooklyn Spiritualist Centre Next meeting: 7pm Sunday 9 November at Brooklyn Community Centre Singing, meditation & medium All welcome. Donation. Email: [email protected] *** Brooklyn Walkers Brooklyn Walkers meet at 9:30am on Monday mornings outside the Brooklyn Library. The walks are varied covering most of Wellington and are easily suitable for senior walkers. Our group is full of friendly people so join us. For more information call Susannah: 384 7412 / Clare 384 9054. 20 October - Otari Wilton Bush Walkways. (9:38am No 7 bus, 10:25am No 14 bus at Lambton Quay H stop. 27 October - Labour Day (No walk) 3 November - Pukerua Bay to Mana via Te Ara Walkway. (9:18am No 7 bus to catch 9:44am train.) 10 November - Seatoun, Pass of Branda, Breaker Bay, Lyall Bay. (9:57am No 11 bus from Wallace St.) Detailed Walking Group programmes, available from the Brooklyn Community Centre office. *** Brooklyn Table Tennis The Brooklyn Table Tennis Club plays from 9am on Tuesday mornings and 8pm till late every Wednesday. 10 Small, friendly group, welcoming new members of all ages. We have 3 tables, good lighting in a pleasant hall. Balls are supplied and a number of club bats are available for use. For information phone: Philip 934 7445 or Gwen 384 9060. *** Brooklyn Scouts Brooklyn Scouts, Cubs and Keas meet in the Scout Hall in Harrison Street, Brooklyn. Keas: 5-7 years, Tuesdays 5.30-6.30pm Cubs: 7-11 years, Mondays 6.30-8.00pm Scouts:11-14 years, Tuesdays 7.009.00pm. Venturers 14-18 years, Thursdays 7.009.00pm For more information contact Gillian Boyes, [email protected] phone: 972 9904 Brooklyn Garden Club The Club meets at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday each month at the Brooklyn Resource Centre, 36 Jefferson St. Come and hear interesting and informative guest speakers, share gardening tips and plant cuttings, and enjoy the company of our small friendly group. New members and new ideas are always welcome. For further details contact Barbara on 389 4307. \ *** Talkers Brooklyn Brownies, Guides & Pippins Brownies meet Monday evening during school terms, from 6.007.30pm, in the Brooklyn Community Centre, Harrison St. We welcome any girl between the ages of 7 to 9.5 years of age to join Brownies for fun, friendship and other activities. Ph. Margaret 389 3028 for details. Brooklyn Pippins meet Monday evening during term time 6-7pm at the Reformed Church, end of Harrison St. Contact Nicola Burdon: 971 1265 Brooklyn Guides meet Mondays 6.30 -8.pm at Reformed Church, Harrison St. Ph. Kathryn Marsh on 802 5049 *** Friends of Owhiro Stream *** Turbine Club environment. Turbine Talkers meets every 2nd Tuesday, at St Matthews Church on Washington Avenue. For further details. Ph. Caroline 971 8494 Toastmasters Turbine Talkers is the local chapter of Toastmasters International. We hold fortnightly meetings to teach and practice the skills of effective communication in a supportive learning Drivers down Ohiro Road will have noticed the vast improvement over the past few years to the Owhiro Stream and its environs achieved by this local group. Work is ongoing and if you would like to find out more about it, call: Martin – 389 8995; Janet - 385 2077 *** Upstream Friends of Central Park Our working bee is the last Sunday of the month from 10am to noon. Meet at the picnic table next to the big bridge, 2 mins from the main gate. Come along for great conversations, meet new people, fab morning tea provided and contribute to the care of Central Park! No formal meeting in January. Contact Debbie for informal meeting times. Email: [email protected] *** Brooklyn Local History Group The next Brooklyn Local History Group meeting is at 2pm Saturday 18 October at Brooklyn Library cnr Cleveland and Harrison Streets. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please contact Sharon for details: 387 1487 daytime or 972 1495 AH *** St John Youth Division and Penguin Programme For 6-18 year olds, weekly sessions, some weekend camps, and fun activities provides a structured programme for attendees to develop life skills, self discipline. The Penguin Programme for 6-8 year olds meets at St Bernard's School, Taft St, Mondays 3:30-4:45pm. The Youth Division for 8-18 year olds meets at Brooklyn Community Centre, Tuesday 6:30-8:00pm. Contact Karen for Penguins on 389 4060 and Carol for Youth on 0274 321 204 www.stjohn.org.nz *** Brooklyn Food Group The Brooklyn Food Group have a passion for local food and community. We run workshops, shared gardens and a community orchard. Contact us to get involved or drop in to our regular working bee at the Brooklyn Orchard every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month from 3pm till 5pm at the end of Harrison Street. Everyone very welcome. [email protected] and www.facebook.com/ 11
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